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Contents:
- FURRY SHAS OF GAY 2
- HOW MARVEL’S LE CAGE GAVE US THE SPIRUAL SUCCSOR TO OMAR LTLE’S REVOLUTNARY GAY INTY
- REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
- ‘REMARKABLE SHAS OF GAY’: FILM REVIEW
- VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
- FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
- SHAS OF GAY
- 50 SHAS OF GAY
- FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
- GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
- MANY SHAS OF GAY
FURRY SHAS OF GAY 2
This anthology featur ne gay-themed short films by director William Brann Bln * shades gay *
“Furry Shas of Gay 3 is a llectn of hot novels wh choice and match-3 elements! “Furry Shas of Gay 2 builds on the first stallment of the seri to brg you even more love, more puzzl and more hot gay sex!
“Furry Shas of Gay is a game about love, queer relatnships, hot gay sex and slapstick humor.
HOW MARVEL’S LE CAGE GAVE US THE SPIRUAL SUCCSOR TO OMAR LTLE’S REVOLUTNARY GAY INTY
A 2017 vio of late rapper Kg Von rurfac onle wh the rapper sayg he's "gay" to get reloted jail. * shades gay *
While Shas do kill Comanche episo seven, is not bee of homophobia or bee he’s choosg his relatnship wh Marian over his relatnship wh Comanche.
For me what mak this not a typil se of “bury your gays” is that Comanche isn’t beg punished for beg gay, him beg a snch was a set up for ath before we even got nfirmatn about his sexualy. But is a nuanced portrayal of two gay men of lor the crimal world?
Much like The Wire did for Omar Ltle, Le Cage‘s Shas offers another image of what a gay/bisexual man n look like. 6% of Amerins intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer, acrdg to a new Gallup report. Sce the dawn of the polilly-motivated “Dream Market” the 1990s, whe, affluent, gay mal uld expect to see themselv gay prt magaz and onle portals, natnal ad mpaigns the media, and, creasgly, mastream media, particularly televisn and news media, while advertisers left the rt of the LGBTQ+ populatn, cludg all people of lor, out the ld.
REPRENTG FIFTY SHAS OF GAY THE LGBTQ+ MARKETPLACE
What do you thk of when you thk, "gay man"? * shades gay *
The Ls, Bs, Ts, and Qs were expected to see themselv reprented by advertisg to whe gay mal and be thankful for the visibily. Alternately, marketers were unapologetilly pursug the gay male dollar and had ltle regard for the rt.
Clarify advocy and reprentatn In recent years, some advertisers have shifted away om “reprentg” all LGBTQ+ nsumers wh imag of gay mal towards advertisg that highlights the stggl of transgenr dividuals. For s, the advertisg dtry has neglected female members of the LGBTQ+ populatn wh a bias towards gay mal; this even though femal are more likely than mal to intify as LGBTQ+. Dpe the fact that a greater number of lbian upl have children than do gay men, gay men actually tend to be more equently portrayed wh fai pared to lbian upl.
‘REMARKABLE SHAS OF GAY’: FILM REVIEW
The Sexual Revolutn was supposed to liberate om sexual stereotyp. In fact, we have replaced the old stereotyp of gay men wh new and even more rigid… * shades gay *
Acrdg to a recent Ipsos report, among the progrsg generatns, more LGBTQ+ people are choosg to intify as “fluid” rather than “non-fluid” (meang gay or lbian) as members of Gen-Z are far more likely than prev generatns to be plurisexual or attracted to more than one sex. Early rearch the field datg back to Frd’s Inversn Theory 1910 scribed gay men and lbians as “sexual verts”—implyg that homosexualy was some sense the reversal of “normal” sex. Gay mal and lbians tend to hold no ls of their own-sex tras than do heterosexuals.
VIO RURFAC OF KG VON TELLG POLICE HE'S "GAY" TO RELOTE IN JAIL
* shades gay *
” While gay men tend to be more feme than heterosexual men, they are no ls mascule than them; siarly, while lbians tend to be more mascule than heterosexual women, they are no ls feme. Hence, while Gen-Z and Millennials tend to e labels that proclaim the fluidy of their genr inty, Gen-X and Baby Boomers primarily label themselv "gay" or "lbian" and "man" or "woman" but genr flex practice. To tly reprent and ronate wh LGBTQ+ nsumers, advertisers have to fight, walk, or dance (#n’tncelpri) the sho of all LGBTQ+ nsumers rather than jt chasg the pot of gold at the end of the gay male or, more recently, bary rabow.
18 Shas of Gay.
FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
The rhythm and tangle of nuance be to bee an unbroken 1 km long chromatic ribbon, vibrant both day and night, above the summer pestrian axis of Sate-Cathere Street East, the Gay Village of Montreal between St-Hubert Street (Metro Statn Berri) and Cartier Street (Metro Statn Pape). 18 Shas of Gay celebrat the evolvg spectm of LGBTQI muny inti – plural, diverse, clive and nuanced.
Concept, 18 Shas of Gay - CC+A. Vio of 18 Shas of Gay, Drone aerial view by @azulrossetti.
The gay-themed shorts of filmmaker William Brann Bln have been shown at a large variety of LGBTQ film ftivals and n also be accsed via a popular YouTube channel. Now, ne of them ma between 2008 and 2014 have been assembled the new anthology llectn Remarkable Shas of Gay, currently receivg is theatril premiere at NYC’s Cema Village. The quietly touchg Whout a Mom ncerns two gay dads fumblg to rpond to their straight son’s anguish after he’s dumped by his girliend.
SHAS OF GAY
In the rerdg leaked earlier this week, the Chigo rapper appears to claim he’s gay to law enforcement officers an effort to secure a cell transfer while servg time jail.
They got a problem wh gay people. How accurate is your “gaydar”? A lot of thk we know all about gay men—where they live, how they drs, how they rry themselv—as though beg gay means a uniform way of beg the world.
50 SHAS OF GAY
The most visible gay men, those who stand out the most, have tradnally lived ci.
And some of end up livg a gay bubble, or what I ll the Gubble. The timat of how many gay men live the Uned Stat range om anywhere between 1. Whatever the percentage, the tth is that many gay men do not f the narrow profile that media outlets propose, and they may not be easily intified by our “gaydar.
” In fact, many of the gay men who do not meet the popular creria may have at one time or another shown up at a therapist’s office wonrg how to al wh feelg ficient wh the muny. More and more, gay men don’t jt live ci. And as gay acceptance grows, so do the physil boundari of where one feels safe.
FIFTY SHAS OF GAY
The “gay ghetto “ is slowly dimishg many ci. And as gay men are able to marry much of the untry, children are now a part of many gay men’s liv. Back 1977, the US Natnal Gay Task Force (NGTF) was ved to the Whe Hoe to meet Print Jimmy Carter’s reprentativ—a first for gay and lbian groups.
Tth is, I would never have pegged him as gay, but at some pot he mentned havg gone to some of the bars near my office. They were all gay bars!
GALLERY: IO TILLETT WRIGHT EXAM THE 50+ SHAS OF GAY
Of urse, this isn't jt about gay men—'s about everyone.
" At Gary's office, his straight -workers tend to be more up on gay issu than he is, not to mentn the plot l om "Will & Grace.
" Yet wh this on of small-town bonhomie, the two men and their iends straddle the paradox of gay life 2000: wh every crement of progrs polics, Hollywood and the workplace, there arise new nos of longer bracketed by the AIDS crisis or the daily thm of overt bigotry, gays and straights are engagg each other's liv more timate ways than ever before, wh a ntradictory mixture of progrs and ristance. In the followg pag, NEWSWEEK explor the often-disorientg ontiers of a stggle no longer easily fed by protts or rabid rhetoric: the thorny play between gays and straights the fay, the schools, the ary and the the untry, men and women like Gary and Greg negotiate liv that would have been hard to image jt a few years ago.
MANY SHAS OF GAY
Open homosexuals cut an unprecented profile polics, on televisn and movi, and the mundane vicissus of even small-town Ameri.
For gay teens, whose experience has often been one of dark isolatn, about 700 high schools now have gay-straight allianc.